Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a potential home for life in our solar system. In 2005, NASA's Cassini ...

New research suggests Enceladus’ water plumes may originate from a slushy ice layer rather than its underground ocean.

Searching for aliens is a tricky business. Most likely, the first alien life we discover will be hidden beneath miles of ocean on a distant world like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Saturn is orbited by 146 moons, with Enceladus being the sixth largest at approximately 500km in diameter. This small, icy moon is characterized by its highly reflective white surface and geyser ...

As the search for life continues, future space missions will need to be extra careful when sampling Enceladus’s surface waters." This study comes as the 2022 Planetary Science Decadal Survey discussed ...

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially discovering life as we know it? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a potential ... plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon's frozen surface, for instance, and it was later theorized that these geysers ...